Despite the copious amount of snowfall that fell on the ski area Monday night into Tuesday morning, 31 total skiers took to the course that required athletes to first traverse up the lower-mountain High Noon run to Grizzly Road. Then, near treeline, skiers ascended to the top of the Pallavicini Lift before transitioning to downhill. They continued to cross to the ski area’s West Wall Saddle before descending through Dercum’s Gulch to the east of the Tree Line Terrain Park.

Skiers then used Lenawee traverse and Burt’s Bypass to access a transition area just below the bottom of the Lenawee Mountain Lift. They traversed uphill to the east of the Lenawee Lift to Tower 3 before continuing through the old weather station gap and across the West Gully to the Gentry trees. After exiting the trees at the bottom of Gentry Face, skiers traversed to the west between Jamie’s Face and Gentry. Skiers then boot-packed up in a closed section of the ski area to Lake Reveal. With skis and skins back on, racers skinned across Dercum’s before contouring through lower Norway and Core Shot to the “Big Al” rock. The race’s finish required athletes to climb up Musket Ball to the Cornice Run, before heading toward ski patrol headquarters for the finish line in the Snow Plume Refuge.

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